Recap of Lady Miners soccer games

The Yreka Miners girls soccer team opened the season on Friday and Saturday at the the Foothill Winter Warm Up Soccer Invitational in Redding.

Below is a recap by head coach Brian Cowley.

"We played three games Friday and Saturday. Our first game was against Gridley High. We lost 3 - 0. This was our first game of the season and Gridley's sixth game this year. We have a young team and we move players around into different positions trying to find the best fit for our team. This was the first game ever played for several of our players. We played hard however and we allowed them to score on a few errors we made in our defense.

The second game was against Foothill High, which we lost 4 - 0. Foothill is a much better and more experienced team than Yreka. This was mostly a defensive game for us. Kendall Nielsen and Kaitlyn Mechling did a great job keeping Foothill from scoring more often. Courtney Huston came in as a defensive specialist and covered Foothill's best player and kept her from scoring.

The last game was Saturday morning against Anderson High. We scored four minutes into the game on a beautiful cross from Leah MacAdams to Kendall Nielsen. This was our first goal of the new season. Midway through the first half the referee awarded a questionable free kick 20yards outside the goal.

The Anderson High player made a great shot from the free kick to tie the game one to one. Kendall Nielsen scored again in the second half off a Kaitlyn Mechling pass.

The referee awarded another questionable foul for a penalty kick which tied the game. The game ended in a tie 2 - 2. Nicole Cowley had her best game of the tournament playing defense. "